Kansas Sec. of State Kobach Defrauding Voters; FBI Whistleblower Coleen Rowley on ‘Terrorism’: ‘BradCast’ 7/23/2015
A big BradCast today!… First up, Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach (R) continues his years-long phony “voter fraud” crusade, but now he’s been given more authority to cause even more damage to the fundamental right to vote! After years of blatantly lying about “voter fraud” in the state (which we document in detail), he […]
‘Vultures’ Descend on Greece; KS SoS Suppressing Thousands of Voters; Trump ‘Fired’ But Surging: ‘BradCast’ 7/1/2015
Greece is the word! On today’s BradCast, financial journalist David Dayen joins us to explain the latest news in the Greek fiscal crisis and how austerity measures being forced on them continue to harm the nation even as the Eurozone and IMF move to make things worse, citizens head to the polls to help decide […]
THIS is What’s the Matter With Kansas: ‘BradCast’ 6/12/2015
It was a major victory (for now) for progressives in the U.S. House hoping to block the TPP trade agreement favored by Obama and the Republicans. On today’s BradCast, we explain what actually happened on Friday. (Since all you’ll hear from the MSM is how “Obama suffered a humiliating defeat by Democrats!” He did, but […]
Greg Palast and Brad Friedman on Thom Hartmann TV’s ‘Bigger Picture Panel’ [VIDEO]
It’s investigative Election Integrity muckraking in East Coast/West Coast stereo! My thanks to Thom for inviting me for this week’s longer-than-usual panel conversation on his Big Picture TV show, and to Palast for being the inimitably indefatigable Greg Palast! Lively discussion includes everything from the secret GOP Crosscheck program to Greg’s assertion that it cost […]
Greg Palast on the GOP ‘Crosscheck’; Tomas Young in Crawford, TX (2005): KPFK ‘BradCast’
On this week’s KPFK/Pacifica Radio BradCast I was joined by investigate journalist and author Greg Palast to discuss his disturbing report on the GOP’s secret “Interstate Crosscheck” database and the hundreds of thousands of voters it may have knocked off the rolls this year. PLUS: A flashback to my interview with then 25-year old paralyzed […]
Quick Hits: GOP Versus Registration Nation
The pace of GOP voter suppression stories and scams is now cascading in faster than we’re able to fully check out or report in detail. So, for now, here are a few very important stories that are likely to become even more relevant in the coming days, even as we’ve only time for quick coverage […]
97-Year Old Woman Denied Right to Vote in Kansas Primary for Lack of Photo ID
Way to go Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach (R)! You caught another one! Last Tuesday, Beth Hiller, a 97 year-old nursing home resident from Topeka, Kansas, boarded a shuttle along with several other residents of the nursing home’s health care unit. It was a difficult process for many of the residents, who had limited […]
Appellate Court Puts Newest GOP Voter Suppression Scheme in KS, AZ On Hold – For Now
Early last week, with little attention in the media, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeal applied the brakes, for now, to one of the newest voter suppression schemes on the bleeding front edge of the GOP’s ongoing War on Voting. The insidious new Republican scheme, if it manages to overcome continuing challenges in court, […]
Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach Has New Plan to Keep 17,500+ Legal Voters From Voting
[This is article has now been cross-published by Salon…] The man who wrote Arizona’s “Papers Please” law before running for Kansas Secretary of State in 2010 on the premise of stamping out “voter fraud” there … before winning and subsequently not being able to find much, if any of it, at all, is nonetheless still […]
Republicans Block Effort to Restore Voting Rights to 15,000+ Perfectly Legal Voters in Kansas
From AP this week… Critics of a Kansas law requiring new voters to provide proof of their U.S. citizenship when registering urged legislators Tuesday to repeal the policy during their special session, but such an effort immediately stalled. About 100 people gathered at the Statehouse for a rally sponsored by KanVote, a Wichita-based group that […]
RNC Delegate Moves to Require Paper Ballots in Republican Party Platform, Sees Motion Gutted
I actually feel sorry for Pat Kerby, the Republican delegate to the Republican National Convention from Nevada who attempted to add an amendment calling for paper ballots — so nobody would have to trust in the “voter machine fairy” — at the RNC’s Platform Committee on Tuesday. The poor fellow seemed to want the right […]
GOP Voter Suppression Shifts Into High Gear in State After State as ‘Tea Party’ Shell Game Exposed
Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning “I don’t want everybody to vote,” Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the billionaire-funded Heritage Foundation and the Moral Majority, said while addressing a right-wing Christian audience in 1980. “[O]ur leverage in the elections goes up as the voting populace goes down,” he added after he denigrated those who seek “good […]
Now That He’s Been Elected, KS Sec. of State-Elect Kris Kobach Can’t Find Any ‘Voter Fraud’
“Our campaign had an undeniable, unmistakable message,” he told his supporters during his victory speech on Election Night, “and that message could be summed up in three words, three words which were on every one of our 4 billion highway signs: ‘stop voter fraud.’” “And now that clear message becomes transformed into a clear mandate,” […]